Could the Sangean ANT-100 External Antenna be used on a scanner radio to receive railroad communications? I think they are close in spectrum.
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I played with the ANT-100 antenna for a few days. This antenna did not improve the reception over the antenna that came attached to the radio even when I raised it up higher than my radio and tried different locations. I needed to improve reception. So I made a simple dipole antenna (cut to the weather frequency) out of a piece of speaker wire stapled to a piece of wood trim. My homemade dipole works great! My ANT-100 External Antenna is lying in my junk box collecting dust. If I remember, I cut the cord off the ANT-100 and used cord with jack to plug the dipole into my radio.
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These antennas are designed to pick up a broadcasting network. On my home and also on my RV I have telescoping antenna masts. You can even use a paint roller telescopic pole with three sections as I did on my RV to extend the length to twenty feet above ground level in still air conditions. They can be found at most large hardware chains. I have a telescoping pole with a thirty foot powered USB extension cable to get my home antenna to fifty feet above ground level. The higher your antennas the better they receive weak signals. These are directional antennas and must be pointed at the signals source to have the maximum RF gain. Without knowing your specific conditions I can only state that there must be a line of site connection, I.E. you cannot have a hill in the way of the 1.5 mile distance. The trees block your signal; if you have a lot of trees your signal will be degraded. In my own experience these antennas work as well or better than Yagi antennas. The height of your antenna and the terrain the signal must travel are the determining factors in your question.
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There is none this is a cheep radio that can pick up local stations only. I would consider a grundig or sangean if you want good reception
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I only used it for scanner not xmit. It did no better than uniden supplied rubber duck which is very good. I have been unable to surpass it with anything. I have ken wood transceivers UHF and they do well on ken wood rubber ducks but UHF antennas on car roofs boost signal car to car.
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No. This antenna is made for scanners, so using it for transmitting is probably a bad idea!
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I can clearly state that I have have used this device in my radio in the 10 meter band as well as side band with much success. As I have not used this device with a HYX-100, I can not advise you in that matter. Although I can disclose that this device has exceeded my expiations. Best of luck.
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It would work for cb channels mostly. You might get marginal reception with it on the higher VHF bands for police and fire. You would be better off get a dedicated vehicle scanner antenna that is designed to receive multiple frequency bands.
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With the rubber duck antenna thats with the radio is limited.however if you can pick up a repeater you can go several hundred miles
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These radios can also be paired up to make a uhf repeater..something Tyt hasn't went public about. I have all the info on this and it is very inexpensive to do
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Check out the review with the 3 star rating By Bee. After the review, the manufacturer responded and recommended improving reception using a different internal and external antenna. I believe the external antenna they referenced is their Yagi direction antenna. They even provide a link to the directional antenna with a female connector, which is on Amazon too.
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Yes its much better than a scanner. Will work fine with a decent mobile antenna, unless your serious and want to spend some money and invest on really hearing. Otherwise yes to your question.
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It will work fine - if you're talking about a CB radio with the built in weather band, as the weather section is set up to be used with a 27mhz antenna. If you're talking about using this with a police scanner, no.
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100 miles is really stretching it. It's going to depend on terrain, height of antenna, do you use a pre-amp? And transmitter strength of the station. Use the internet to research this antenna.
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Any good scanner antenna designed to cover the frequencies you want to listen to will work great. A discone will cover a large frequency spread and work well. There are a number of good quality commercial multi band scanner antennas which have great performance. Try to get the antenna as high as you can, use good quality coax, the longer the run the better quality you should use to reduce loss in the coax.
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You would most likely have a high SWR and a poor communication experience. An antenna matcher might help some, but only experimentation will tell!
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Get a better antenna. This one is kinda lame. If you have any sort of hill or building between you and the repeater, you wont get a good signal. I turned my Tram 1185 into a scanner antenna. It works better as a scanner antenna then it did as a mag-mount on my truck. Spend an extra twenty bucks on a 5/8ths wave antenna from a better brand. But to directly answer your question, I would imagine that you might be able to tune this antenna to 164-166. I doubt you could get a flat SWR on it though because I bet it would be too short.
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Try a 27Mz rubber ducky..These Antennas are closley matched to 162Mz.... Reserched.... (wheather channels) This is why the wheather comes in with more clarity..QUOTE}There cute little radios.But not Quite up to par for mobile use 4 watts! Not)Try 60MA! Good for 100 feet!